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Elon Musk, Vivek Ramaswamy and the Silicon Valley Tech Millionaire Group Continue Lambasting Americans While Advocating for Expanded Foreign Worker Visas
The Last Refuge ^ | December 26, 2024 | Sundance

Posted on 12/27/2024 10:05:09 AM PST by SoConPubbie

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Elon and Vivek: For a couple of smart guys, they really do not know how to read a room do they?
1 posted on 12/27/2024 10:05:09 AM PST by SoConPubbie
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To: SoConPubbie

They make some points but we need to realize that so many of the foreign tech workers here are here stealing our technology.


2 posted on 12/27/2024 10:08:46 AM PST by boycott
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I need to hear more, but my gut tells me this is all a play from the left to divide Trump from Elon and Vivek and perhaps the rest of us.

In short, the left seizes on an opportunity to try to throw a monkey wrench into MAGA in whatever way they believe they can, especially before Jan. 20.

I admit on the surface it sounds a bit tone-deaf, but I would invite Elon and Vivek to explain and further elaborate on the subject. Perhaps the devil is in the details, and in all honesty, I hesitate to hand the leftists any sort of a victory of any kind.


3 posted on 12/27/2024 10:09:26 AM PST by cross_bearer_02
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Being a really accomplished computer professional is no more difficult or notable than being an excellent building contractor or dentist. The “whiz kid” myth is pure media created bullshit. The “whiz kid” from India, even more so. Information technology really is not that complicated. It is just another way to sell advertising. They hire Indians so a handful of lucky tech people can have a 200 foot yacht rather than a 100 foot one.

They wont tell you, I just did.


4 posted on 12/27/2024 10:09:34 AM PST by jroehl (And how we burned in the camps later - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn - The Gulag Archipelago)
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The alternative is to utilize foreign workers online. You don’t want to do that. You want them HERE.


5 posted on 12/27/2024 10:10:26 AM PST by johnnygeneric (Blocked website)
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To: cross_bearer_02

Wow. The left made Vivek say what he did on X?


6 posted on 12/27/2024 10:10:58 AM PST by Its All Over Except ...
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Wow an Indian fella wants more Indians to come here ?
Wow a foreigner doesn’t care about the make up of America’s society but only cares about his company’s bottom line ?
I am very surprised lol


7 posted on 12/27/2024 10:11:43 AM PST by escapefromboston (Peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations, entangling alliances with none.)
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Well if Elon down sizes the Federal workforce wouldn’t there be a highly trained, motivated, hard working group available to fill those high tech jobs? 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

Sorry, I can’t type anymore, laughing TOO hard 😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣

8 posted on 12/27/2024 10:12:09 AM PST by Lockbox (politicians, they all seemed like game show host to me.... Sting)
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But there’s this:

Apple pays $25 million to settle suit over favoring foreign hires and making it so hard for U.S. workers to apply that few or none did for certain jobs

https://fortune.com/2023/11/09/apple-settles-discriminated-case-us-foreign-workers/


9 posted on 12/27/2024 10:12:15 AM PST by Its All Over Except ...
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But there’s this:

Apple pays $25 million to settle suit over favoring foreign hires and making it so hard for U.S. workers to apply that few or none did for certain jobs

https://fortune.com/2023/11/09/apple-settles-discriminated-case-us-foreign-workers/


10 posted on 12/27/2024 10:12:17 AM PST by Its All Over Except ...
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The real cause of this is the DEI BS that has blocked white males from tech ed. So the rats/MSM will pounce on this when they caused the problem as usual.


11 posted on 12/27/2024 10:12:36 AM PST by iamgalt
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To: SoConPubbie

This FOREIGN WORKERS business is a weak spot with Trump… sadly it always has been and may well end up destroying his MAGA dreams.


12 posted on 12/27/2024 10:12:50 AM PST by House Atreides (I’m now ULTRA-MAGA-PRO-MAX)
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Wrong, America First is for Americans not Indians.


13 posted on 12/27/2024 10:13:48 AM PST by bray (It's not racist to be racist against races the DNC hates.)
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” The left made Vivek say what he did on X?”

Vivek is pro India.


14 posted on 12/27/2024 10:14:34 AM PST by dljordan (What would Michael Collins do?)
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No. Not saying the left made him say what he said. I’m just saying the left seizes upon any and every opportunity to try to derail Trump, and we have to be vigilant against their efforts to do so.

After four years of anti-MAGA from the left and its media lapdogs, the skeptic in me almost automatically dismiss out-of-hand anything negative against Trump or the men and women he has surrounded himself with until I have a chance to dig deep and hear them fully explain their positions.

In short: I know what Vivek said, but I smell a rat.


15 posted on 12/27/2024 10:14:40 AM PST by cross_bearer_02
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Stop importing H-1B invaders and Americans will flock to the stem degrees because employers faced with a shortage will start paying more money in salariesnto Americans. Rising technicalities will incentivize young Americans to pursue STEM degrees. The reason why we have so many lawyers in this country is because lawyers don’t have to compete with foreigners and they are still paid well.

If you cut off the importation of programmers and engineers wages will rise and more Americans will pursue those careers. Supply and demand is pretty simple.

The Trump Administration must to honor its MAGA promises or go the way of the Tories in the U.K.. The time for abandoning political promises to Americans is over.

If Trump falls on this issue he and the GOP can go to hell.

All the Republicans have to do is live up to their promises and they will have a lock on the majority for at least a generation. Are they smart enough? I doubt it.


16 posted on 12/27/2024 10:16:13 AM PST by wildcard_redneck
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Agreed.

Importing cheap labor is only making the situation worse by depressing wages and opportunities in the industry.

Stripping human capital from developing nations is also immoral.


17 posted on 12/27/2024 10:18:11 AM PST by TheDon (Resist the usurpers! Remember the J6 political prisoners!)
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To: cross_bearer_02

Buy how could they exploit what he said if he didn’t sat it?


18 posted on 12/27/2024 10:19:28 AM PST by Its All Over Except ...
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Elon Musk is an example of foreign talent we should be working hard to attract to the USA. Musk has created one of a kind technologies no one else has been able to do.

He is the genius of our age. Without Elon Musk’s acquisition of twitter (now X) we would have lost the republic.


19 posted on 12/27/2024 10:19:30 AM PST by marktwain (The Republic is at risk. Resistance to the Democratic Party is Resistance to Tyranny. )
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Then there’s this?

60 Minutes segment on how the H-1B visa program was used to import cheaper IT workers from India to displace American workers. American workers had to train their foreign replacements if they wanted to receive a severance.

https://x.com/USTechWorkers/status/1402290338119577604


20 posted on 12/27/2024 10:20:15 AM PST by Its All Over Except ...
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